1735: Sir Robert Walpole became the first Prime Minister to move into 10 Downing Street.
1780: Capt William Lynch's name was immortalised when he issued a proclamation in Virginia, saying that if citizens believed the official course of justice was not strong enough, they should take the law into their own hands. While horse-whipping was the general punishment, hanging did take place - hence the word lynching.
1827: Joseph Smith, son of an impoverished New England farmer, announced he had received golden plates from an angel. From this he translated the Book of the Mormon which led to the founding of the Mormons.
1880: Dame Christabel Pankhurst, suffragette daughter of Emmeline, was born in Manchester.
1955: With the start of commercial television in Britain, the first advert transmitted was for Gibbs SR toothpaste.
1972: Idi Amin gave Uganda's 8,000 Asians 48 hours to leave the country.
1980: Workers in Poland formed a new independent labour union, Solidarity.
1989: An IRA bomb attack killed 10 at the Royal Marines School of Music in
Deal, Kent. Twelve other bandsmen were injured.
1990: The Natural History Museum solved the Piltdown Man hoax. The mastermind behind it was anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith.
1991: Bryan Adams made pop history when his record Everything I Do, I Do For You, stayed at number one for a 12th week.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Former boxing champion Frank Bruno was escorted to
hospital by police after being sectioned under the Mental Health Act.
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